'These thrive-famed fortifications are now about to meet their quietus. Cap Rolland, of the Royal Engineers, has temporarily' transferred his services to. the Provisional Government of the Ti to superintend on its beh destruction of the Forts, and has actually began his work, It is understood that.
begin with the North-West Port ite Pilot Town, and follow on with th Fort at the mouth of the river.
The Intter in a way interferes with the currents, and it is hoped that its removal will contribute to the improvement of the navigation. The amount of work to be done is enormous, if the works are to be levelled to. the plain. 'Those who hav not seen the camps at close quarters can have no idea of their size, and of the navy work to be undertaken. It will probably be a six months' or a year's job, unless vast numbers of men are put on to it.
The Haiho Conservancy is steadily organising its work; for the moment its energies are directed to the closure of the great breach made by the and soldiers, The visitors were more than equal to the occasion.
In tennis we have had the rare pleasure of a challenge tournament with our shan neighbours. It could expected that a little club of twe should be able to de much with one nuntbering one hundred and twenty, and as a matter of fact, Tientsin won all the ches, two "singles" and three "doubles; was, how much better than ome of the matches showed tennis in its hi est form, In one of the doubles 23 mies had to be played before issue reached. Messrs. Shaw and well, concert in the evening, in the visit us, illustrated the oki He parade that the half is sometimes better tun the whole.
riy ab the int closed the The guests stayed arval that the. who remained with th wish We I mately between French te of soldi Our gallant neighbours played wit rear pluck, but thei bu against them; they lost by eight goals to nothing. The mmteh was characterised ith the gr wnl-feeling, and an. ex-round to applaud ch picuously absent not long ago, is ina at Inst established among the W had no rows in the reets fur time, and disciline all round is good, can sit pass fee noys by the Caste ly the Pre Government hi the collection of these funds in its and opposition is he tion. OF the merits the controversy little is known; there however, sainte fear that the new departure of the Customs has an_ulter and that it. may be the thin end ofthe jar, however, purely ter between the two bodies in quest ind the Chamber of Commerc: has not General.
Dr. and Mis. Avthur 8 ith hate return. ed to their home in the Mission Field. 1 Mr. George Jamieson, C. as been Lin Tientsin and is now in Peking on thet business of the great Syndicate. [note in comneetion with this Shi-lu, brother to the Mi jJames's and one of the preters, is now in Tientsin on its way to the family graves in Foochow. It is not nown that this gentleman was the Boxers on through some of his memoranda in Engli floating on the surface, after he had thrown them overboard while escaping from a pursuing boat, The family is in a position to They tial the North sre soldiers from all ov people here seem ance of these samples of the new They looking youn fellows, blouses and.
loons wi ulation. Bull's on the fi They nto wear Teather shoes for marching. the attention of the Good Behaviour.
Being for evidently feel them, fan sent tts seve urgent messages to effect that for waners should Lie low while these soldices ave here, and also pay 1 Lo their reviling. if they tke "Eamusement, But thus far ceedingly well-behaved They number only some 1,500 or 2,000. lain here a comple of weeks The Grain 1 their way Neth, The in the neo of the two, wand as they very striking.
awry informed atives ix, TF the simply ax an Imperial escort 1 Lhese troops yoing North
their heads over it "gout deal.
They sowin te atinpect the the we as ant Ameri would ray; 12th October.
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